Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-09-15
ALEX ANDRIA.
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER IS.
GEN. MALONE is evidently iDsincere. BE

GEN. MALONE is evidently ipsincere lie
saws he Virginia democrats are "BourooDS'
but he shows plainly enough il his latest ell
fusion that be believes they are the mcss
forge.ful people in the world. All kno"
that Bourbons never forget anything. The
Generals forte, as proved by the paper ie-
ferred 10, and the preceding one, is rot
written words. He denounces Mr. Barbour
for various sorts Of delibquencies, and Tor
some polilical crimes, and says that gentle
mans sole object now is TO gain seal In
the II. s. Senate. There is net nan OF
the requisite aga in Virginia, Bourbon" or
otherwise who doesn't know that save only
and except for the fact that tho democrats
would not have Gen. Malone for Governor
ne would never have left the democratic
party, CT which he was once one OF me most
ultra and proscriptve members, end that II
is oaly his absorbing desire to go back to
the Senate that is now inducing him 10
spend his money in order to attain that OBJ
iect. One of his charges i; that Mr.. Bar
bour never did anything to help the Con-
federacy during the wa:. But every well
informed Vrrinian knows that dnnng the
war Mr.. Barbour was president Of the Nir'
pinia Midland Railroad, a road that did rs
much for the Conlederacy as any other IN
the country, and that the proper dis
charge of the duties of lis presidency could
not have left him much time for any other
ser vice. This attack upon the war record OF
Mr.. Barbour reviyes in the memory OF the
unforgetful Bourbon" the fact that there
was q rumor during the war to the effect that
the Gen. and his sutler, when his command
on outpost duty, carried on profitable
trade with the enemy. Another one OF
of his charges is that Mr. Barbour gains vic
tories for his party by fraudulent elections.
This makes the .'Bourbons" remember that
during the Malone regime, Of the three
Judges of election at every precinct one was
q Mahoneite, one a republican and one
democrat. and that the two former always
decided against the one latter; that his reg
istrlrs, with bald face impudence, declared
they would re. lister grave yards; that his
deputy collectors gave spurious tax receipts
to'all who would promise to vote his ticket,
and that the fraudulent action Of his re-
turning board in the case CT the Congress
man from the First district Was 50 gross
that it was spurned and rejected even by
the republicans in the U. S. House OF Repre-
sentatiyes. The General also has the eli
frontery to charge tho democrats with re-
moving school officers and judges. But the
"Bourbons" will never forget the wholesale
changes the General made in the officers re-
ferred to. when the man he made superin-
tendent of public education in the State was
so deficient that he could not write gram
NAUTICAL paragraph, and when one OF his
leaders in the Virginia legislature openly
declared that the only qualifications his par
ty required OF judge were that no be n re-
adiuster and once in his life have opened
law book. Then, too, the General says Mr..
Barbour never profiteh the State to The ex-
tent Of dollar. while he, the Genera, in
one transaction alone put half a million in
to her treasury This beats all, for no Nlr-
ginian vii, the slightest degree OF memory,
let alone bourbon" will ever forget the
notorious fact, thatin the very case to which
the General alludes the State was offered
sir millions OF dollars for her interest in the
Norfolk and Western Railroad, that that
offer was declined solely and entirely by
and through the Generals influence, aud
that few years afterwards it was sold for
a half million. and that during the interval
the General was paid salary Of twenty-five
thousand dollars year as president. No.
unfortunately for the General, the "Bour'
bons" don't forget, but, that be really be
lieves they do, is patent to every reason
able mau who has read his letter on Mr.
Barbour.
Mr.. TINsLEY told Dispatch reporter that the
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